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August 30, 2024
Our Land and Water has now ended.
Our mission was to preserve the most fundamental treasures of Aotearoa – its land and water – while producing value from those same treasures.
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Presentation
Sink or swim: A radical overhaul to water policy-making approach in NZ: A case study of lake Te Waihora
4th International water resources and wetlands conference, Tulcea, September 2018
Journal Article
Balancing water-quality threats from nutrients and production in Australian and NZ dairy farms under low profit margins
We summarise the losses of N and P from Australasian dairy farms, examine the policy drivers used for mitigating losses and evaluate the effectiveness of…
Interactive Tool
Map of Total Nitrogen Excess and Reduction Potential
An interactive map shows the total nitrogen (TN) in excess of current national rules and the potential for mitigation strategies to reduce TN losses from…
Summary
Project Summary: Application of Remote Sensing in Spatial Irrigation Scheduling
This article summarises the results of a Rural Professionals Fund project that aimed to use the SWAN Systems platform, an automated water balance model, alongside…
Infographic
Matatau Whenua Guidelines – Infographic
The Matatau Whenua Guidelines will assist whenua Māori landowners and decision-makers incorporate traditional Māori knowledge, or mātauranga, into land-use decision-making. The guidelines, are divided into…
Journal Article
Co-benefits and trade-offs of water quality mitigation measures on greenhouse gas emissions from New Zealand dairy systems
As part of government climate change policy, New Zealand dairy farmers will be encouraged to reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through a proposed pricing…
Technical Report
A risk assessment approach for prioritising actions in farm environment plans with mahinga kai values
The project co-developed and produced a geospatial tool that is available through a webpage. The beta tool allows users (initially dairy farmers) to identify and…
Journal Article
A Global Database of Soil Plant Available Phosphorus
Soil phosphorus drives food production that is needed to feed a growing global population. However, knowledge of plant available phosphorus stocks at a global scale…
Technical Report
Collaborative expert judgement analysis of uncertainty associated with catchment-scale nitrogen load modelling with OVERSEER
The widespread view that use of OVERSEER-derived N loss estimates to set catchment-scale nutrient limits is an inappropriate use of this tool needs to be…
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